Note 89 — KELAT-I-GHILZIE.
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A General Order of October, 1842, announced: “To every officer, non-commissioned officer, and private present within Kelat-i-Ghilzie, and forming part of the garrison during the late investment, will be presented a silver medal,” &c. The garrison consisted of 600 of the Shah’s army and three companies of the 12th. Bengal Native Infantry. No Queen’s regiment took part in the defence, but there were present forty European artillery and sixty Sappers and Miners, the whole being under the command of Captain John Craigie.